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mend bush culture as often facilitating the testing of 
varieties which if trained would he longer in reach¬ 
ing the hearing state. Bush culture, he says, is an 
excellent system for amateurs to follow. 
Pear, Fondante Thirriot (Bulletin d'Arbor., &c., 
1883, 5, with col. pi.).—A first-class new pear, 
described as having sometimes the aspect of 
Duchesse d’Angouleme, and sometimes the colour of 
Louise Bonne d’Avranches. The tree is vigorous 
and fertile. The fruit is large pyriform, rather 
elongated, the eye superficial with open divisions, 
the stalk rather large and long, fleshy, obliquely 
inserted. The skin is yellowish green, spotted with 
brown around the eye. The flesh is white, melting, 
buttery, with abundant sugary juice, and an agree¬ 
able perfumed flavour, which is most pronounced as it 
commences to ripen. It begins to ripen at the end 
of October, and continues until the middle of Decem¬ 
ber. It was raised by MM. Thirriot frferes, ten 
years since, but is as yet too little known and dis¬ 
tributed. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Mar. 17—Apr. 
14) contains :—Dendrobium luteolum chlorocentrum, 
Behb. f. (p. 340, fig. 48), a variety having the principal 
tufts of hairs on the centre of the flowers of a greenish 
colour ; Williams.— Oncidium ustulatum , Bchb. f. (p. 
340), a fine Oncid of the group of Cyrtochilums, with 
the habit of O. serratum. The flowers have the dorsal 
sepal transverse emarginate crisped, of a sepia brown 
with a pale border, the lateral sepals being cuneate 
oblong not crisped; the petals are hastate, shortly 
clawed, much undulated and toothletted, with 
.yellowish lines principally near the edge ; the lip has 
its cuneate-oblong acuminate middle lobe reddish 
purple with sulphur-coloured calli, and the side lobes 
brown ; Columbia ; Shuttleworth & Carder. — Spatho- 
glottis pacifica, Bchb. f. (p. 340), a pretty terres¬ 
trial Orchid with the habit of Bletia verecunda, bear¬ 
ing whitish-lilac flowers as large as those of Calanthe 
Masuca, with a lilac and yellow lip; Pacific Islands; W. 
Bull.— Oncidium Brunleesianum, Bchb. f. (p. 340), a 
handsome Oncid, with linear ligulate pseudobulbs, 
a pair of oblong-ligulate leaves, and an effuse 
drooping panicle of flower*, of which the back 
sepal is greenish-yellow tinted with brown near the 
apex, the lateral ones connate bidentate greenish 
yellow; the petals of the same colour with a brown 
stripe in the upper part, the lip broad trifid, with the 
front lobe dark brown-purple, the disk marked with 
red and yellow bars; Heath & Son.— Salvia mexi- 
cana minor, Benth. (p. 341, fig. 49), a remarkable 
plant cultivated as S. nigricans ; it produces long 
spikes of flowers apparently black, but which when 
seen by transmitted light are of the richest violet 
purple ; Canuell & Sons. —Lcelia anceps ITilliana, 
Bchb. f. (p. 342), a very lovely Orchid, approaching 
L. a. Dawsoni in having snow-white sepals and petals, 
while the radiating lines of the lip are very pro¬ 
minent ; quite distinct from L. a. Yeitchiana; TV. 
Lee, Esq.— Oncidium monacliicum, Bchb. f. (p. 368) ; 
this is a fine Oncid of the Cyrtochilum group, 
related to O. metallicum. The flowers are rather 
large, with brownish sepals, the dorsal one having a 
narrow crispy border of yellow, cinnamon-coloured 
wavy petals with sulphur blotches and edges, and a 
small brown lip w r ith a remarkable double callus; 
“the column may be compared to a nun having her 
arms appressed to her sides; hence the name”; 
New Grenada; B. S. William*.— Rodriguezia calo- 
plectron, Bchb. f. (p. 368), a New Grenadan plant 
allied to B. granatensis, with small oblong pseudo¬ 
bulbs, solitary thick lanceolate leaves, and small 
yellowish white flowers. The var. rhodoptera has the 
upper sepal and petals bordered with bright mauve 
purple, and is a much finer thing; J, Day, Esq.— 
Dendrobium Johannis semifuscum, Bchb. f. (p. 368), 
a variety in which the sepals are yellow, the petals 
light sepia brown, and the lip deep yellow with red¬ 
dish brown margins; W. Bull — Fxacum affine, 
Balfour (p. 368), a neat little Gentianaceous annual 
or biennial from Socotra, 6 inches high, with dark 
green ovate three-nerved leaves, and terminal clus¬ 
ters of violet-purple flowers with yellow anthers; 
Socotra; Haage et Schmidt.— Hedychiumperegrinum, 
N. E. Brown, a handsome Scitamineous plant with 
leafy stems 3—4 feet high, elliptic or elliptic-lanceo¬ 
late leaves 12—15 inches long, and spikes 6 inches 
long of narrow petalled j ellowish-green flowers with 
a while lip and orange-red stamen; Madagascar; 
Kew.— Colchicum crociflorum, Begel (p. 372, fig. 55), 
a distinct and handsome new Meadow Saffron, with 
ovoid bulbs, lanceolate leaves, and several flowers 
with a slender purple-tinted tube, and six oblong- 
lanceolate milk-white segments each having three 
distinct purple stripes down the back; Turkestan, and 
the Alatan Mountains; Kew.— Cotyledon Corderoyi, 
Baker (p. 373, fig. 56), a rare as well as neat little 
succulent greenhouse plant; the smooth shining 
wliitish-green leaves form a rosette 3—4 inches in 
diameter; and the small red and yellow flowers grow in 
panicled cymes on slender erect peduncles.— An- 
tlmrium splendidum, Hort. Bull. (p. 381, fig. 58), a 
most remarkable plant, of great beauty, and abso¬ 
lutely distinct; it has massive cordate leaves, which 
are singularly blistered or rugose, and the bright 
velvety green colouring is very striking.— Eria 
Flioesii, Bchb. f. (p. 402), a tiny curiosity, with de¬ 
pressed lenticular flat pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceolate 
petiolate leaves, and small light brownish-ochre 
flowers; Himalayas; Sir C. TV. Strickland.— Rodri¬ 
guezia Lehmanni, Bchb. f. (p. 403), a New Grenadan 
species, with ligulate-ovate two-edged pseudobulbs, 
solitary cuneate oblong-lanceolate leaves, and pendent 
racemes of whitish ochre-coloured flowers with a 
brown wash, the lip with a yellow disk and two great 
cinnamon blotches on the anterior part; Col. Vipan. 
— Calanthe Cecilice, Hort. Low, Bchb. f. (p. 432), a 
fine Malayan species, near C. parviflora., with the 
flowers light ochre-coloured “with a most delicate 
and delightful hue of purple,” the sepals and petals 
are obtuse, the lip quadrifid ; Low & Co.— Dendrob¬ 
ium nobile formosanum, Bchb. f. (p. 432), a pretty 
variety from Formosa, with white flowers, having 
the petals and lip tipped with mauve-purple ; B. S. 
Williams.— Epidendrum Fndresii, Bchb. f. (p. 432), a 
fine species from Costa Bica with slender cae«pitose 
stems, cordate-ovate obtuse leaves, and loose racemes 
of flowers having white mauve-tipped sepals and a 
mauve-coloured lip with a triangular orange callus 
at its base; E. Sander. —Cypripedium Schroderce, 
Hort. Veitch, Bchb. f. (p. 432), a hybrid raised by 
Mr. Seden between C. caudatum and C. Sedeni, and 
dedicated to the Baroness Schroder; the upper sepal 
is ochre-coloured with purple veins, the petals de¬ 
pendent broad undulated, whitish in the centre and 
marked with purple, and the lip broad blunt and 
purple; the leaves are like'those of C. Sedeni; 
Veitch & Sons.— Osmunda japonica corymbifera, T. 
Moore (p. 466), a very elegant hardy or half hardy- 
crested fern from Japan, having the apices of the 
frond itself and those of all the segments mul- 
tifidly cut with obtuse lobes ; this species is one of 
those having separate fertile fronds; it is deciduous, 
losing its fronds in winter; Japan; Veitch & Sons. 
— Aerides lepidum, Bchb. f. (p. 466), an Indian 
Orchid, with lorate bilobed leaves, and rich racemes 
of white flowers with the tips of the petals as well as 
the anterior of the tip part purple; the spur is curved; 
Lt.-Col. Berkeley.— Coelogyne chloroptera, Bchb. f. 
(p. 466), a Philippine species with ovate pseudo¬ 
bulbs, oblong acute leaves and racemes of five or six 
flowers, “ equalling those of a good C. flaccida in size, 
